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Originally Posted by timun
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... Another common occurrence: a driver stops mid-block to let a pedestrian jaywalk across the road. It puts the pedestrian at risk of getting hit by a car coming from the opposite direction, or another car in an adjacent lane on a four-lane road. Drivers should never, ever do it but in Calgary, sometimes, they do! They think they're being nice!
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A few months ago I was behind someone that did this so a police officer could jaywalk across the road from a coffee shop to their vehicle parked on the opposite side of the road.